Boynton man accused of burglarizing home with woman, children inside

A Lake Worth grandmother awoke to a loud banging on her front door as two terrified grandchildren rushed into her bedroom around 3 a.m. Thursday. Their home was about to be burglarized, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.

The grandmother, unidentified in the report, told deputies she ordered her two granddaughters to grab their brother and hide in the bathroom as she peeked through the front door peep hole of the home to see two men banging on the door.

She then rushed to the bathroom, locked the door, dialed 911 and waited as authorities said Kelvin Bernard Clemons Jr., 21, of Boynton Beach, and another unidentified man, pried open the door.

One of the grandchildren, shaken by the experience and needing an inhaler to calm down, told deputies she heard the door open and saw lights quickly turning on and off along with men talking, according to the report.

Deputies arrived to find a man in the driveway who they said acted as a lookout run away. Clemons also sprinted away with a laptop, according to the arrest report.

Inside the home, deputies said they found fingerprints and DNA for analysis.

Clemons was found less than half a mile away on the 1300 block of South J St. but when talking to deputies, Clemons denied any involvement in the burglary, according to the report.

A check of Florida Department of Law Enforcement records found at least 11 previous arrests dating back to 2007. At 15, Clemons faced a robbery with a firearm charge along with at least two previous burglary charges.

Clemons faces burglary and resisting arrest charges. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Thursday where he remains in lieu of $26,000 bail.